“Hi, rather than compete, we’re going to just buy out our competitors. Then when someone has something worth competing against us with, we’ll just buy them before they can get market share.”

Monopolies *never* benefit consumers. 

I don’t think Sony is going anywhere. The only losers here are the gamers. 

Exactly. That’s called fraud or negligence, depending on the outcome.

Goddamn that sounds terrible.

My daughter asked for this once. Said it was a fruit drink she saw an ad for and thought it sounded good. I don’t know what ad she saw, but I specifically asked if it was an energy drink and she said not that she could tell.

It’s fascinating how the only people ‘advancing technology’ puts out of work are the average employees. Upper management and execs just keep on coasting on their uselessness.

Ryan could totally get Evans for a cameo.

What do you think “fantasy world” means. Seriously. Do you think they invented all new kinds of sentient creatures and spun out completely alien societies and modes of interaction whole cloth? Or do you think they made stories about human beings that are heavily based on actual human cultures and told stories about…

I would expect no less from a film franchise where the lead shot himself dead before he could make Green Lantern.

What would Zuckerberg know about kindness?

2 clicks is what I’d expect. One to cancel, and one to say “Are you sure you want to cancel?”

And, there’s the issue with capitalism in a single sentence.

Harley resembles Edgerunners Lucyna Kushinada.

Are you sure about that? Making soup out of them would stretch things out, I’d think. Or else slicing them very very thin, like the ham filling you get in a truckstop vending machine sandwich.

And unfortunately, even combined, all the rich politicians and corporate shills would only feed a small city for a few weeks. So, eating the rich, while a solid short term plan, isn’t going to help us get through the coming crisis. 

The people with the power to do anything about this are the people least affected - they have the money to insulate themselves from the worst of the effects; they can afford air-conditioning, and still afford the food they want when the prices escalate as crops fail. So ultimately they don’t want to do anything, as it…

I highly doubt the discovery in this case proved the Administration was actively working with companies to remove any content that wasn’t criminal in nature. What this judgement does, essentially, is reinforce the lie that Biden is censoring the free speech of right wingers. This is ammunition for Greene and Boebert.…